AJB live commentary on Casino Royale 1967

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,424MI6 Agent
    At least they got the casting of the women right :D
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Niven, smooth as silk
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Ursula as Vesper (with a bit of help from Nikki)

    But she worked hard at shedding Nikki's services.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Music “The Look Of Love” Oscar-nominated, covered many times
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “The Look Of Love” Oscar-nominated, covered many times

    Surely the best thing to come out of the CR '67 mess.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “The Look Of Love” Oscar-nominated, covered many times

    Surely the best thing to come out of the CR '67 mess.

    The music is this film's redeeming feature
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Sellers and Ursula... as much chemistry in their initial meeting as in any Bond/Bond girl meeting in the Eon series.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Why did she change from pink dress to yellow dress and then back to pink dress?
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “The Look Of Love” Oscar-nominated, covered many times

    Surely the best thing to come out of the CR '67 mess.

    Agreed. And Dusty Springfield sings it beautifully.
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Gymkata wrote:
    We need to have Kato come in here and kick the heck out of Peter.

    Burt Kwouk will show up later as it happens.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    The slow mo sequence in front of the fish tank. Reminds me of the water bed in DAF and the octopus tank in OP. Similarly put to romantic use.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,424MI6 Agent
    I had to hang up the washing to dry. Can anyone update me on the latest plot developments? :v
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    Why did she change from pink dress to yellow dress and then back to pink dress?

    See? Normally I’m drunk so I don’t spot these annoying continuity flubs!
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Sellers does an excellent job of replicating Connery's style of walking as he scopes the room.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    We need to have Kato come in here and kick the heck out of Peter.

    He does appear later, though not with Sellers. :#
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Honestly...who greenlit this..thing?

    There's a whole book about that- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Casino-Royale-Michael-Richardson/dp/1845831128
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    We‘ve once had a waiter on a cruiseship and he looked exactly like Kato.

    The food was terrible but i was afraid to tell him because he may have attacked me :D
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Barbel wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    Honestly...who greenlit this..thing?

    There's a whole book about that- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Casino-Royale-Michael-Richardson/dp/1845831128

    Briefly- in 67 Bond was very very bankable (the film made money) and so was Sellers.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Gymkata wrote:
    That moment where you're 4 hours into a death march of a 'movie' and you realize it's only been playing for 50 minutes...

    Thats sounds painful :))
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Barbel wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    Honestly...who greenlit this..thing?

    There's a whole book about that- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Casino-Royale-Michael-Richardson/dp/1845831128

    OOOH I must get that. I enjoy a good tragic comedy. Or is that a black comedy?
    Something to do with farce anyway....
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    We‘ve once had a waiter on a cruiseship and he looked exactly like Kato.

    The food was terrible but i was afraid to tell him because he may have attacked me :D

    You'd have been ok if the phone rang at the right moment
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    If Sellers is Hitler, Ursula is Leni Riefenstahl with that camera. Her comment, "Perfect!" suggests the fascism of soulless modernity.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    If Sellars is Hitler, Ursula is Leni Riefenstahl with that camera. Her comment, "Perfect!" suggests the fascism of soulless modernity.

    Well observed.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,424MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    It's agood thing Mike Myers never saw this. It could have ended in some silly Bond spoof! :o
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    It's agood thing Mike Myers never saw this. It could have ended in soem silly Bond spoof! :o

    Absolutely, crossbred with Matt Helm
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    ...and then the plot went BOOM!!!

    The “we are working on that” Bombardier balmy bowler.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    The Q scene!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    John Wells as Fordyce, Q's assistant- later Denis Thatcher in FYEO
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Poison pen letter...? Now, where else did I hear that...?
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    ....Poison pen letter.... Geoffrey Blayden is actually a very good uptight Q. Forsythe is a believable R too.

    Note Q’s Cup and saucer!
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